Object Details
Names
Michell, Jennie
Tsin-is-tum
Scope and Contents
Banjo Louie was so called because he played the banjo. The old lady could recall the Astoria men, and was supposed to have been 110 when she died. According to letter of Mrs Tuthill, April 12, 1966, Jennie Michele or Michell, "the last of the Clatsop Indians," is mentioned in "Clatsop County, its History, Legends and Industries," by Emma Gene Miller, 1958. Her Indian name is there given as Tsin-is-tum. She was born in the vicinity of Seaside or Astoria in 1816 and died in 1905. In 1900 she went with a committee from the Oregon Historical Society to show them the location of Fort Clatsop.
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref7557
Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.55744
Local Note
Black and white copy negative
Place
Oregon -- Seaside
Oregon -- Indian Point
Topic
Clallam (Klallam)
Culture
Clatsop
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
S'Klallam (Klallam)
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Extent
1 Photograph (8x10 in)
Date
1905 or earlier
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Genre/Form
Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref7557
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f487d1e4-0c82-4e97-9bed-3f61e6a85ad9
NAA.PhotoLot.176
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670517-6